it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.